"America has a physical constitution and a body of laws and courts and armed police, but it does not function because Americans are constantly forced by those institutions to abide by the law. Instead, life in America mostly operates according to shared ideas about what is appropriate behaviour for life in America."
- Ryan Avent

TV writers completely oblivious to the world around themWriters Guild says it's going to be aggressive about negotiations for 2007 and isn't afraid to strike. Clearly, they're living on another planet from the rest of us, since they're unaware that great writers really aren't all that rare. Why the entertainment business is held hostage by any labor union is completely mystifying.